Posted on May 8, 2014 by Lisa Evers in Fox 5 News Fox 5 News, By Lisa Evers The biggest growth in the number of homeless New Yorkers in the shelter system is from working parents who just can’t afford skyrocketing rents. They have few, if any, alternatives. Peggy Jenkins and her daughter, Shakeima, 16, have been living in a shelter in the East New York section of Brooklyn for nearly four years.
